Pros and cons of joining a Startup vs Corporate Job | Nikesh Jain | #TGV270

“Chase the vision, not the money; the money will end up following you.” 

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Tune into The Guiding Voice #TGV270 for Naveen Samala's conversation with Nikesh Jain for insights on "Pros and Cons of Joining a Startup"

In this EPISODE, we will dive into how to decide between working at a startup vs a corporate company based on a variety of factors such as benefits, leadership opportunities, growth tracks, and overall job satisfaction.

0:00:00 Introduction and Context Setting

0:02:00 Toughest lessons learned as an entrepreneur by Nikesh

0:06:00 Pros and Cons of joining a startup, how to choose a startup job - what kind of research one must to before joining a startup?

0:09:00 Salary vs Stock Options - how to balance?

0:12:00 What do MNCs offer compared to Startups?

0:18:00 Approaching for VC funding

0:22:00 Vesting Options

0:29:00 How to Exercise Stock Options

0:34:00 Tax implications

0:39:00 Exit Opportunities

0:42:00 Dealing with co-founders

0:48:00 Witty answers to rapid-fire questions, his nickname, super strength vs invisibility, what success means to Nikesh

0:50:10 Trivia about Startups

ABOUT THE GUEST (Nikesh Jain, in his words):

Building Edurigo a web 3.0 learning experience platform! Making corporate, sales, product, support, and academic learning fun, engaging, and measurable. 

Prior to Edurigo, I had,

- 24 years of experience in developing complex software platforms, and building top-notch engineering teams at highly successful startups and world-class software companies.

- Worked as Vice President/Head of Engineering - India at Apttus a quote to cash start-up.

- Worked at Icertis a Seattle/Pune-based start-up as VP of Engineering and managed Icertis products on MS Azure cloud. 

- Worked at Ariba ( An SAP Company ) as Director of Engineering and managed engineering development for upstream (Sourcing, CLM, Spend Analysis) and downstream (Procure to Pay, Catalog) products on the Ariba commerce cloud.

- Worked at Yahoo! as part of their cloud platform group. Owned and managed Y! Geo and Video transcoding platform.

What gives me a kick - To make a difference (with a huge impact) to society in the area of education or healthcare or just anything which would make this world a better place for humanity.

Connect with Nikesh on LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikeshjain/

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